Kim Cattrall
Kim Cattrall (born Clare Woodgate on August 21, 1956) is a British-American actress. Cattrall was born in Liverpool, England.
At the age of 3 months, Cattrall and her family moved across the Atlantic Ocean to Canada. When she was 16, she moved to New York, where she studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art. In 1981, at age 25, she briefly dated the recently-divorced Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Cattrall starred in a handful of films during the 1970s, but her first taste of international fame came in 1981, when she participated in the first Porky's film. Then, she acted in the first Police Academy film in 1984, and in the first Mannequin, in 1987.
Cattrall is better known, however, for her work as "Samantha Jones" in the Sex and the City television series. Cattrall played "Samantha" since the series began. "Samantha Jones" and several of her other characters have been known for being sexually open women.
In addition to her career as an actress, she is also a writer, having co-written with her third husband Mark Levinson the book Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm.
Cattrall has also been wed to Larry Davis and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
